Thanks Ann,I have been introspective and a wee bit crap of late....feeling springier now so hopefully I'm on the up again. My mum likes that poem too, I will make Chris take me up there again today...see what's changed this sunday!
xxx

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Ha ha - and up to its usual mischief. If only I could get to have the 3 wishes...

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Full bodied and a little too vintage, unfortunately.... LOL xx

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Ah the Genie is out of the bottle!

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Oh Isobel, you look nice this morning but it's a little bit early for me! Are you sweet or very very dry? (The latter I suspect!) And of a good vintage! Cheers! xx

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Hi cate - thanks for comments- read through your poems. I like your sunflower theme (all in good time I hope) as I have also written about them.

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Mmmm...
chin-chin ; )

xxx

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Thank you for your comment Ann. If I could play the guitar I would. :)

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Thank you Cynthia x

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Nicky, I was thinking of you today, and wondering how your pregnancy was progressing. Perhaps you have already given birth. Happy Easter to you, in whatever sense you most identify - even if it's purely the rebirth of springtime and blackbirds.

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Greg, I loved your comment left for me on my personal site re: the villanelle, about 'bolting one's self into a formal structure'. You understood exactly what I meant about the writing of it being 'an adventure'. I used to write in forms of lines, metres and rhymes a lot. I go back periodically to keep my hand in. My real challenge is - a sonnet (don't care which type).

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Hello Anthony. I hope you have managed to come through your not funny ha ha time ok.
You need to reinforce that skin of yours and get yourself back on here. A worthy WOLOP past winner and critic, you add something to the site - plus you often make me laugh.
Perhaps you could write an ode to laughter - that gift from the Gods that seems to go unopened for so many...

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Dear Ms Foxglove, I'd like to invite you to a Mass Euclidian Moony Wedding, Yours in anticipation, Diana. x

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A mind is a series of points of view shoved out of the mouth/dispersed by a number of gestures. What's not to like? You have such an ease with language it's loveable.

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Thanks for comments on Spelling. . . I guess the spelling issue was supposed to imply a more general lack of communication between two people, not on the same wavelength type of thing, maybe if you were trying to distance yourself from someone you're attracted to. But I'm not very good at spelling anyway! And I agree you wouldn't fall for someone cos they were a good speller! But that's the point of the poem maybe? And it's based on someone I know. xx

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Hi Isobel,
Missed you too. Been a funny time for me of late - not funny ha-ha. My comment wasn't meant to be cryptic. What I meant was that it was about time you allowed others a chance to reward your talent and be suitably WOLOPed. Like your latest too - although I'm not going to say why publicly for fear it gets me into trouble - as usual. Beautiful minds are rare, whether male or female. Beautiful words it seems these days, rarer still.
Regards,
A.E. x

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Thanks for your comments on my 'War' poem Simon .... my first ever Siren comment! And I'm enormously flattered to be even mentioned in the same breath as Auden - made my day.
Cx

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Thank-you Cynthia for your comments on my 'War' poem, I'm glad you liked it. You always give such good feedback and your comments really mean a lot to me.
:-)
Cx

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Thank you for the kind comment on Sculpture Cynthia. The spelling has been corrected!

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Hi Lisa ;-) thank you for taking the time to read my works, yes I am inspired by the magical, mistical, the Golden Ratio, the interconnectness of everything, A Universe like a multi dimensional jigsaw puzzle in a cosmic dance, maybe I will get to write a poem about it one day ;-)TC XX

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Hey up 'Gladders! wherfore art thou-get thy blogs blogging-pretty
please! Stefeatures

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Thank you for your comments on "Bye Mommy". I was very focused on the structure because what I wish I could do is be a songwriter and I wrote this as lyrics - but I barely have any original music in my head, so the way I wrote it was to a vague tune I could hear. I think if it ever were a song, it would be more concise if a young man and an older woman sang the different verses, which of course would probably mean a major rewrite. But I don't have any musicians knocking down my door, so I'm probably safe on that one!

Thanks again,
Lisa

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Cheers Simon re 'Unfailing'That I should remind you of the fantastic Mr, Hopkins! wow! what a compliment indeed! thank you Sir-Stefan.

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indeed, my father's shop is the kind that eats people's days without them noticing and it was a fabulous place in which to grow up, my own word-forest. I like your work, many of the samples made me smile and/or think.

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Hi Ian, thank you for your kind words on "not gone and not forgotten"
"DID" is indeed a wonderful poem and "gibberish" brought a smile to my face as it is a subject dear to my heart.

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Hi Andy, just wanted to say thanks for reading my latest. I';m glad you liked it.:-)

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Hi Winston, thanks for taking the time to comment on my latest, glad you liked it.

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Thank you very much cynth that means a lot.

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Hi Win,
thanks for your comment on my Hyacinths poem. Much appreciated.

Janet.x

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Thanks for commenting on my Hyacinths poem. Much appreciated.

Janet.x

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So i did! Sorry about that :-)

I'll remove it now, thanks. :-)

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Hi Andy, thanks again for your comment on my Hyacinths poem.
A book? Well maybe a self published one in time. I don't think i have enough to put into one yet. :-)
Good luck with yours.
Janet.x

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You realy should try a little more sex Anne ...aid doing nothing you are starting to go green.

you know what they say... iIf you don't use it... you'll lose it... believe me ... right now I know the feeing...

Thank you for all of your support on my blog.

Augusta xx

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Good morning Winston-thanks very much for observations on 'Sun Killer' your comments are very helpful and inspiring-best regards-Stef.

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Hi Andy, by the Power of the Sonic Screwdriver the nits can be vanquished. But -- if they're not treated -- it doesn't 'alf make the Dalek's itchy and they don't have sufficient reach with their suction cup and whisk, so they end up rubbing their tubs against tree trunks, just like bears do. Doesn't do the trees much good, either. Love your poems -- especially 'Animals in the bags'!

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That is an incredibly powerful sample poem Alison. It really hits you and is so simply yet beautifully expressed. I look forward to reading more of your work.

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Hey,
Brief encounters made me smile..
Thanks for your thought on my very short poem.
I used to live near Manchester for afew years, in a little town called Hyde. Thanks again, Donna.

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hi - "my love" thanks for the comments. B

Comment is about Ann Foxglove (poet profile)

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LOL - About time I started thinking about structure??? What are you like with your cryptic comments! Have so missed you!

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It was easy when you have spent most of your life being a missing piece ha ha . Great poem ;-) TC X

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Hi Kealan-you have paid me a great compliment re'bible'poem.Coming from you,it means more than you know-big thanks-Stefan.

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hey thanks for saying you like acrostica, tis one i wrote to get the thought out of my head. also thanks for the fb add :)

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hey thanks for the praise (and the fb add) I like epiphany on the edge, very evocative :)

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Hi John Thanks for looking in. I know West Haddlesey. As a lad I lived for my first 10 years in Selby just off doncaster road! My mum still lives there and by brother in Barlow. In fact I know the G & D too. I will be cycling past it on next mon or tue twice as part of a 200km ride from My home in Hebden Bridge to North Cave and back "walking in six string heaven" - I am a big fan of rock guitar I'm afraid. I will think of Coopey's groupies when I pass. Win x

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Thanks for your kind comments about "Coopey's Groupies". This a very rare example of me being able to do something positive with such an unusual surname.
The poem is true (-well, perhaps a little exaggerartion with the anecdotes-). It's the George and Dragon in West Haddlesey near Selby.
Anyway, I took the opportunity to look at some of your poems and was impressed by them - we seem to share a love of rhythm. I especially enjoyed the phrase "walking in six string heaven" - very pictorial and evocative.
Once again, thanks for the post.

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Thank you for your comment on Baby Irma. Rest assured, no trafficking of babies (oh, Cynthia, that would be a horrendously gothic idea, the trafficking of dead babies to the Living and living babies to the Dead) it's simply the Dead wishing to take advantage of their position and set up a trading cartel. What goods would the Dead trade with the Living and vice versa? I leave that to your imagination.

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Hi Jane, glad you enjoyed my Kingfisher poem. I've been looking at your work and was struck by the abundance of rich language in Apple Power, and by the quiet but outraged patriotism of The Duck House Parliament. Cromwell always gets a bad press in many quarters, on the left as well as the right, but I do see him as a great figure, and you gave him an almost mythical power in your poem. A collection of poems about the civil war ... now that would be something, wouldn't it? Greg

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You're hiding behind the sofa?! That's where Dalek nits congregate/lurk when they've fallen off their host! They're a nuisance to get out of your carpet and their eggs survive for millennia. Send Fanny The Indian Cow to track them down with her long, cow tongue! She's adorable, by the way!

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Hi Ann,
I hadn't thought of it as 'tortoise and hare-like'. Maybe revisit it in the future but unlikely. :-)

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Hi Lisa, I did wonder where the missing piece for the actual jigsaw came from, But as it is a mystery in the poem, I assumed it was the returning of the son ;-)
All Mums like that ha ha ;-))
TC x

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